Ferns and Grass
Common Name
Latin name
Christmas fern
Polystichum acrostichoides
Eastern woodfern
Dryopteris marginalis
Ostrich fern
Matteuccia struthiopteris
Purple love grass
Eragrostis spectabilis
Indian grass
Sorghastrum nutans
T Moist




 





Height, 2-3’, moist to wet shady
areas, spreads slowly
Height, 8-18", fall bloom
creates beautiful hazy purple
cloud-like effect
Height, 3-8’, tall, bunching sodformer, broad blue-green
to
blades, soft, golden-brown
 seed head, deep orange to
purple fall color
Little bluestem grass
Schizachyrium scoparium
Description
1-2’, an evergreen fern
 to Height,
that grows in clusters, it likes

cool moist soil,
Height, 1-3', evergreen, non colonizing fern for a woodland
landscape
Height, 1.5-4’, open areas,
graceful

Shrubs, Trees and Vines
Height, 10-40’, small maroon
flowers in spring followed by
Common pawpaw tree 
 large tropical like leaves. Host
Asimina triloba

for Zebra swallowtail and
Pawpaw sphinx
Coral honeysuckle vine
Lonicera sempervirens
Grey dogwood
Cornus racemosa



to


Length 3-20’, red flowers, MarJune followed by red-black
berries. Favorite of
hummingbirds.


Lindera benzoin



Height, 6-12’, white flowers
to early spring followed by red
to fruits in fall. Host for Spicebush
 and Easter Tiger swallow tail
butterflies.
Summersweet
Clethra alnifolia
 

Height, 5-8', white flowers in
Aug., great nectar shrub
 
Height, 3-6', White flowers in
June, spectacular fall color
Cornus sericea
SpicebSpiceush
Virginia sweetspire
Itea virginica
to
Salvia coccinea
Tropical Milkweed
Asclepias curassavica 
Height, 3-4’, red flowers,
 monarch host and nectar
plant
Key
 sunny
 part shade
 shade
deer resistant
hummingbird favorite
bee favorite
dry
 medium wet
 wet
butterfly host or nectar plant
sb song birds favorite
attracts beneficial insects

Native Plant Sale
Black Hill Regional Park
20930 Lake Ridge Drive
Boyds, Maryland 20841
to Height, 10-15', white flowers in
June, deciduous shrub, berries,

reddish fall color
Height, 6-10', deciduous shrub,
white flowers in late May,
reddish fall color, red winter
stems, soil stabilization
Red-twigged dogwood
Wildlife
Non-Native Nectar Plants
Hummingbird vine
Vine with beautiful red
Campsis radicans  
flowers
Height, 4-5’, orange
Mexican Sunflower
flowers, great nectar
Tithonia rotundifolia  
plant
Height, 4-5’, white
Queen Anne’s lace
  flowers, great nectar
Daucus carota
plant
Texas Sage
  Height, 3-4’, red flowers
April 25, 2014, 3-7 p.m.
Plant Prices
April 26, 2014, 10 a.m. - 3 p.m.
Most herbaceous: $4 - $6.00,
Shrubs: $10 - $25
April 27, 2014, 1-3 p.m.
see www.blackhillnature.org
as more info is available
Photos by Barbara Kreiley and Mary McKnight, FOBHNP; and Robert H.
Mohlenbrock, Larry Allain, R.A. Howard, Jeff McMillian, Jennifer Anderson, Stan
Gilliam, Rusty Russel, J.S. Peterson, William S. Justice, USDA-NRCS PLANTS
Database
Proceeds benefit
Black Hill Nature Programs
Herbaceous Natives
Common Name
Latin Name
Black-eyed Susan
Rudbeckia hirta
Blazing star
Liatris spicata
Lt.
Moist
 to
 




Blue false indigo


Blue mistflower   to
Conoclinium
 
coelestinum
Browneyed Susan 
Rudbeckia triloba

Butterfly weed 
Asclepias tuberosa

Cardinal flower   to
Lobelia cardinalis
 
Baptisia australis
Clustered
mountainmint
Pycnanthemum
muticum
Common milkweed

Asclepias syriaca

Common
sneezeweed

Helenium autumnale
Dogbane
Apocynum, sp
Dotted mint
Monarda punctata
 to

to

Aquilegia canadensis 
Eastern wild
columbine
Foam flower
Tiarella cordifolia
Foxglove
penstemon
Penstemon digitalis
Height, 1-4’, purple flowers, JulAug, beautiful purple spikes
Height, 1-3.5’, blue-violet flowers
Jul-Oct, great late bloomer for
flower border
Height, 1.5-4.5’, yellow-orange
flowers Jun-Oct, plants are
smaller than black-eyed Susan
Height, 1-3’, orange flowers MayJul, bright color for the border,
Monarch butterfly host
Height, 2-4’, red flowers Jul-Oct,
wonderful late blooming plant
with red flower spikes
Height, 2-3’, pinkish flowers in
fall, silvery foliage, great nectar
source
Height, 1.5-6’, yellow flowers JulSep, plant tends to be covered
with flowers
 


 

Height 1.5-2’, pink to purple
flowers July-Sept
Common Name
Latin Name
Lt.
Frost aster

Symphyotrichum
pilosum
sb
sb,
Indian pink
Spigelia marilandica
Height, 0.5-1’, white flowers AprJul, on many lists of easy to grow
plants
Height, 2-5’, white tubular
flowers May-June, great nectar
plant for bees

 
 
Arisaema triphyllum 
Joe Pye weed  to
Eupatorium, sp
 
Joe Pye weed 
Eupatorium dubium
'Little Joe'
 to
Jack-in-the-pulpit
to
Lyreleaf sage
Description
Height, 1-2.5’, yellow flowers
Apr-Jun, bright flowers for front
of the border early color
Height, 0.5-2.5’, yellow flowers
Apr-Aug, nice early flowering
ground cover
Height, 1-3’, red and yellow
flowers Mar-May, beautiful
flowers; late in shooting new
growth, Garden Club of America’s
2010 plant of the year
Height, 3-7’, purple flowers Julysept., great nectar plant
Height, 3-4', light pink flowers in
late summer, dwarf species
Height, 1-2’, violet flowers
Aug – Oct, compact plant, great
fall nectar plant
New York aster
  to
Height, 1-4’, blue to violet
flowers Jul-Oct, smaller aster
with pretty fall flowers
  to
 
Height, 3.5-8’, purple to white
flowers Aug-Oct, beautiful
flowers for back of the border in
wet area
 to
 
Seaside goldenrod 
Solidago sempervirens 
Height, 1-5’, yellow flowers JunSept, all summer bloomer to add
bright yellow to the landscape
New York ironweed
Vernonia
noveboracensis
Ox-eye sunflower
Heliopsis
helianthoides
  to
 
Height, 1-2.5’, pink turning blue
flowers May-Jun, pretty early
bloomer
  to
Chelone glabra
 
White wood aster  to
Eurybia divaricata
 
Height, 1.5-6.5’, white flowers
Jul-Oct, host for Baltimore
checkerspot butterfly
Whorled milkweed
Asclepias verticillata
Whorled stonecrop
sb
Sedum ternaturm
'Larinem Park'
Wild blue phlox
Phlox divaricata
Wild bergamot

  to

 

 to
 
 to
 
Wild germanium  to
Geranium maculatum
 
Wild ginger 

Asarum canadense

Wild bleeding heart
Dicentra eximia
Height, 1-6.5’, yellow flowers
Aug-Nov, important goldenrod
for late season nectar
Description
Height 3-6’m, pinkish flowers in
summer, beautiful flower
Monarda fistulosa
 

Moist
White turtlehead
Height, 1-3’, pink-purple flowers
June-July,
Height, 1-3’, striped purple or
green flowers, May-Jun
Lt.
 
Asclepias incarnata

Swamp rose  to
mallow
Hibiscus moscheutos  
to
Tickseed sunflower 
Bidens
 
Virginia bluebells
Height, 1-5’, blue flowers AugOct, wonderful long spikes of
color
Symphyotrichum
novae-angliae
‘‘Purple Dome'

Latin Name
Mertensia virginica

New England aster
Common Name
Swamp milkweed
fall, survives dry conditions,
great bee and nectar plant
Height, 1-3’, blue to violet
flowers in spring, leafy rosette is
Salvia lyrata
Herbaceous Natives
Wildlife
support
to Height, 1-3’, full white flowers in
 to
 
Zizia aurea

 
Golden ragwort
Packera aurea 

 
Great blue lobelia

Lobelia siphilitica

Hairy beardtongue

Penstemon
hirsutus

Symphyotrichum novibelgii

Height, 0.5-3’, red-yellow flowers
Apr-Jul, wonderful plant for early
flowers
Moist
Golden Alexander
Height, 3-5’, blue-purple blooms,
May-June, long-lived easy to
grow, on MD’s Expert Plant Picks”
as very hardy and tolerant
Height, 1-3’, white to pink
flowers June-Aug., good nectar
source but not for small gardens

Herbaceous Natives
Wildlife
support
Height, 1-3’, yellow flowers Jun- song birds
(sb)
Sept., biennial plant, blooms
second year
Height, 3-6’, pale purples flowers
May-Aug, host for Monarch
butterfly



Description
Wildlife
support
Height, 4-6’, pink to reddish
flowers May-Jun, pretty nectarrich flower, Monarch host
Height, 3-6’yellow flowers JulyAug, pretty, nectar- rich flower
Height, 0.5-3’, white flowers JulOct, does well in shade
Height, 1-2’, white flowers JulAug, small milkweed plant with
pretty fall colors
Height, 6", white flowers in early
spring, groundcover
Height, 1-1.5’, pink-purple
flowers Apr-Sept, beautiful early
flowers, good ground cover
Height, 1.5-3’, pink to purple
flowers Jun-Sept, dependable
bloomer, mildew resistant
sb
Height, 1.5-2’, pink to white
flowers, Apr-Sept, great plant,
with pretty foliage
sb
Height, 1-2’, lavender-pink
flowers Apr-Jul, forms a nice
ground cover
Height, 0.5’, purplish flowers
Apr-May, pretty low green
ground cover for shady areas
Ferns and Grass
Common Name
Latin name
Christmas fern
Polystichum acrostichoides
Eastern woodfern
Dryopteris marginalis
Ostrich fern
Matteuccia struthiopteris
Purple love grass
Eragrostis spectabilis
Indian grass
Sorghastrum nutans
T Moist




 





Height, 2-3’, moist to wet shady
areas, spreads slowly
Height, 8-18", fall bloom
creates beautiful hazy purple
cloud-like effect
Height, 3-8’, tall, bunching sodformer, broad blue-green
to
blades, soft, golden-brown
 seed head, deep orange to
purple fall color
Little bluestem grass
Schizachyrium scoparium
Description
1-2’, an evergreen fern
 to Height,
that grows in clusters, it likes

cool moist soil,
Height, 1-3', evergreen, non colonizing fern for a woodland
landscape
Height, 1.5-4’, open areas,
graceful

Shrubs, Trees and Vines
Height, 10-40’, small maroon
flowers in spring followed by
Common pawpaw tree 
 large tropical like leaves. Host
Asimina triloba

for Zebra swallowtail and
Pawpaw sphinx
Coral honeysuckle vine
Lonicera sempervirens
Grey dogwood
Cornus racemosa
Red-twigged dogwood
Cornus sericea
Summersweet
Clethra alnifolia
Virginia sweetspire
Itea virginica
Spicebush
Lindera benzoin



to


Length 3-20’, red flowers, MarJune followed by red-black
berries. Favorite of
hummingbirds.
Tropical Milkweed
Asclepias curassavica 
Height, 3-4’, red flowers,
 monarch host and nectar
plant
Plant Prices -Indicated by Stick Color or as Marked
Key
 sunny
 part shade
 shade
dry
 medium wet
 wet
deer resistant
Height, 6-10', deciduous shrub,
white flowers in late May,
reddish fall color, red winter
stems, soil stabilization
 

Height, 5-8', white flowers in
Aug., great nectar shrub
 
Height, 3-6', White flowers in
June, spectacular fall color

Height, 6-12’, white flowers
to early spring followed by red
to fruits in fall. Host for Spicebush
 and Easter Tiger swallow tail
butterflies.
Tan (not dyed)
hummingbird favorite
Green$6.00
bee favorite
Blue $8.00
butterfly host or nectar plant
sb song birds favorite
attracts beneficial insects
Red
$4.00
$10.00
A few plants have price marked on a
tag placed in the plant.
Plant Prices -



Salvia coccinea
to Height, 10-15', white flowers in
June, deciduous shrub, berries,

reddish fall color

to
Wildlife
Non-Native Nectar Plants
Hummingbird vine
Vine with beautiful red
Campsis radicans  
flowers
Height, 4-5’, orange
Mexican Sunflower
flowers, great nectar
Tithonia rotundifolia  
plant
Height, 4-5’, white
Queen Anne’s lace
  flowers, great nectar
Daucus carota
plant
Texas Sage
  Height, 3-4’, red flowers
Most herbaceous: $4 - $6.00,
Shrubs: $10 - $25
Photos by Barbara Kreiley and Mary McKnight, FOBHNP; and Robert H.
Mohlenbrock, Larry Allain, R.A. Howard, Jeff McMillian, Jennifer
Anderson, Stan Gilliam, Rusty Russel, J.S. Peterson, William S. Justice,
USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database
March 1, 2014 Version